It'd be even better with a GPS built-in. I shouldn't need to know where I am to get directions on where I want to go, but hey, fan boys unite! I own an iPhone anyway and I'm sure I'll buy the one when it comes out with 3G and a GPS as well... I'm that stupid.
They could also jump on to the high-definition bandwagon and upgrade the DVD player to HD-DVD.
Shit, they just might give it away for free while they're at it or add an anti-gravity generator to the box. What the fuck are you smoking? Sony will support HD-DVD when pigs fly.
I'm sure he was talking about their boobs jiggling or bouncing up and down without a bra rather than an actual vibrator used for vaginal stimulation. That would just consume precious power rather than generate it like the boob vibrator would.
I think you're missing the point. Departments are bypassing their traditional corporate IT infrastructure and just outsourcing the work to "Web 2.0" companies that host these services in bulk. Why pay corporate IT to stand up an expensive piece of software, the database, servers, update software, etc. when you can just pay a service provider $XXX per month to maintain it instead? It ends up being cheaper because the service provider can implement the technology in bulk across hundreds or thousands of sites and your site is just one among many to be supported.
If they don't include some kind of commercial interruption it screws up the flow of the show. After a witty comeback or cliffhanger the show needs to break to give the viewer time to process what they've seen. It's artistic integrity we're dealing with here people. That's why we need to preserve the commercials in their entirety whenever possible.
Facebook and MySpace are the 21st century equivalent of Geocities. How many billion dollars do you think they could sell Geocities for these days? Remember, Geocities used to be VERY popular with idiots setting up free websites, just like MySpace and Facebook today. Anyone that spends more than $1000 investing in these fly-by-night sites is a complete fool or is looking to cash in on the pyramid scheme.
Problem is, off course, that most of the advantage from 3G comes from other services such as wathing video or video chat on the phone.
Video chat on a cell phone!? What's next, you're going to want to use it as a camcorder and send movies via SMS? I suppose you've got an instant messaging application, 3G, user-customizable ringtones, Bluetooth data transfer, and replaceable battery on your fancy-shmancy European chic phone too right? These things are superfluous on a revolutionary communications device in America.
The irony (yes yes, not the right word) of it was I was actively trying to get IE from Firefox, and MS wouldn't let me do it without getting a validation code from all the WGA nonsense.
Didn't there used to be an application you could download to manually validate the system though? After that you'd be able to grab IE7.
Using 2.4 Ghz doesn't require a license anyway so it's irrelevant that he's a HAM. You can put amplifiers on your 802.11b connection as long as it doesn't interfere with your neighbors.
Like parent says, when you buy any electronic gizzmo you're not just paying for the parts. You're paying R&D costs, distribution costs, profit for share holders and the stores etc.
Clearly there is a need here for more open source involvement then. R&D could be free since we could use Usenet groups and web forums to research technologies, distribution is also free since you could distribute the plans and geeks could breadboard them or produce their own PC boards.... profits for shareholders is irrelevant since only greedy companies have shareholders. As for the stores, also irrelevant since we're giving the schematics away for free. Open source rules!
I love libraries with all my heart and soul. I live near the wonderful Harold Washington Library and I still get happy inside by just walking through their doors. Libraries are living laboratories of socialism in the belly of the profit-driven beast.
You and I must be polar opposites. I actively refuse to step foot in a library anymore and haven't been in one in over 15 years. My wife still goes to them to check out books on various things, but the few times she's tried to get me to go I've stopped at the front door and turned away and sat in the car. There's just something that feels illegal about letting people borrow books, CDs, and DVDs for free. If I do that I'd get arrested, but a library can do it under the protection of the police like some kind of organized crime racket? Fuck that. I'm probably one of the only people in the country that went through college refusing to buy used books too since I felt they were screwing the publishers by reselling the books. When I did a research paper on anything I'd just buy my reference material from Amazon.com or the book store instead.
Well, this is Apple screwing itself and its customers over because they don't open up the Protected AAC format so other companies can use it in their stores. Good job Apple. I still won't buy anything in a compressed and DRM-encumbered format as long as I can still buy unencrypted CDs and DVDs. I'm patient and can wait a few days for my media to ship or just go to Best Buy or some other brick and mortar store.
Pretty soon we'll need to buy one DVD per DVD player and they'll have some kind of activation thing where the first time you play it ties it to that DVD player if we keep going down this road.
broadcast tv is actually very very efficent, and in terms of sending a picture and sound, pisses all over tcp for speed.
How's your upload speed on that connection? Do you just sit there mindlessly and absorb your non-interactive programming from the network Gods? Internets are expensive because they carry interactive content, not just one-way broadcasts that spray a signal to anyone with a receiver. Broadcasting is very important in an emergency situation or in the case of a coach potato watching the latest Hollywood drivel, but interactive wireless Internet access is much more important for the future.
Nobody watches TV. Shit, I don't even own a TV, I just read books and debate about modern culture on the Internet for entertainment. Americans stopped watching TV around 1994.
Then don't use it, but good luck finding an alternative since the guys at XMLtv are behind SchedulesDirect as well so I doubt they're going to put any effort into screen scraping TMS anymore... and thank God. Anyone who was around in the bad-old-days before DataDirect probably remembers the pain of upgrading XMLtv and MythTV just because TMS changed their fucking web site design a tad and broke the screen scraper. I'll gladly pay $5 a month for the same info I was getting from Zap2it Labs for free.
The sun isn't even out at 6am! Are we supposed to stumble around outside in the dark trying to find our way to work? Shit man, I don't leave the house until the sun has been up at least 2 hours.
so who is the terrorist then ? ask the other 6 billion - 275 million people on this planet.
Terrorists attack people to create fear to promote their agenda, the United States attacks people for access to natural resources. Get it right dumbass.
You're wiping too hard! They make moist towelettes now similar to baby wipes that are much gentler on the skin and clean up the powerpoint much easier after having a bathroom meeting.
Four PS3s at $500 a piece would come in under the budget for his project. Throw in a gigabit switch (does the PS3 even have a gigabit NIC?) and some other bits and you've got your $2500 cluster.
Afterall, there's only so much you can do with a file syncher.
Does it play music, edit files, or browse the web? If not I think there's a lot more functionality that can be added on before I'd ship it as feature complete.
That aside, you probably know that PPPoE is not used for customers with static IP plans. If you're willing to pay for two connections, why not spend an extra few bucks and skip the PPPoE issues altogether?
AT&T still uses PPPoE for static customers, at least where I live. I would love to go back to Speakeasy where the connection was bridged, but they're not available out of the CO that covers the area where I moved. I'm paying $79.95/month for 5 static IPs with PPPoE and 6Mbps/768Kbps through AT&T and it goes up to $99.95/month after my 1 year contract expires... not sure if I can renew at the lower price again or not. With Speakeasy I was paying $109.95/month for the same service with no PPPoE and a Filecloud account included as part of their gamer package.
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It'd be even better with a GPS built-in. I shouldn't need to know where I am to get directions on where I want to go, but hey, fan boys unite! I own an iPhone anyway and I'm sure I'll buy the one when it comes out with 3G and a GPS as well... I'm that stupid.
Shit, they just might give it away for free while they're at it or add an anti-gravity generator to the box. What the fuck are you smoking? Sony will support HD-DVD when pigs fly.
I'm sure he was talking about their boobs jiggling or bouncing up and down without a bra rather than an actual vibrator used for vaginal stimulation. That would just consume precious power rather than generate it like the boob vibrator would.
I think you're missing the point. Departments are bypassing their traditional corporate IT infrastructure and just outsourcing the work to "Web 2.0" companies that host these services in bulk. Why pay corporate IT to stand up an expensive piece of software, the database, servers, update software, etc. when you can just pay a service provider $XXX per month to maintain it instead? It ends up being cheaper because the service provider can implement the technology in bulk across hundreds or thousands of sites and your site is just one among many to be supported.
If they don't include some kind of commercial interruption it screws up the flow of the show. After a witty comeback or cliffhanger the show needs to break to give the viewer time to process what they've seen. It's artistic integrity we're dealing with here people. That's why we need to preserve the commercials in their entirety whenever possible.
Facebook and MySpace are the 21st century equivalent of Geocities. How many billion dollars do you think they could sell Geocities for these days? Remember, Geocities used to be VERY popular with idiots setting up free websites, just like MySpace and Facebook today. Anyone that spends more than $1000 investing in these fly-by-night sites is a complete fool or is looking to cash in on the pyramid scheme.
Go type IMSLP into Google and you'll have your answer as the first hit. Quit being such a god damn lazy grammar nazi.
Using 2.4 Ghz doesn't require a license anyway so it's irrelevant that he's a HAM. You can put amplifiers on your 802.11b connection as long as it doesn't interfere with your neighbors.
Well, this is Apple screwing itself and its customers over because they don't open up the Protected AAC format so other companies can use it in their stores. Good job Apple. I still won't buy anything in a compressed and DRM-encumbered format as long as I can still buy unencrypted CDs and DVDs. I'm patient and can wait a few days for my media to ship or just go to Best Buy or some other brick and mortar store.
Pretty soon we'll need to buy one DVD per DVD player and they'll have some kind of activation thing where the first time you play it ties it to that DVD player if we keep going down this road.
Why don't you go out and actually get laid for once in your life instead? $600 would surely buy you the services of a decent prostitute.
Nobody watches TV. Shit, I don't even own a TV, I just read books and debate about modern culture on the Internet for entertainment. Americans stopped watching TV around 1994.
Then don't use it, but good luck finding an alternative since the guys at XMLtv are behind SchedulesDirect as well so I doubt they're going to put any effort into screen scraping TMS anymore... and thank God. Anyone who was around in the bad-old-days before DataDirect probably remembers the pain of upgrading XMLtv and MythTV just because TMS changed their fucking web site design a tad and broke the screen scraper. I'll gladly pay $5 a month for the same info I was getting from Zap2it Labs for free.
The sun isn't even out at 6am! Are we supposed to stumble around outside in the dark trying to find our way to work? Shit man, I don't leave the house until the sun has been up at least 2 hours.
Four PS3s at $500 a piece would come in under the budget for his project. Throw in a gigabit switch (does the PS3 even have a gigabit NIC?) and some other bits and you've got your $2500 cluster.